JonathanRNelson
05-21-2008, 06:35 AM
I was looking through a D&D monster book and came across this creature, the Odopi:
http://www.jonathanrnelson.com/wip/odopi/conceptArt.jpg
I wanted to animate it without any hand keyframing, using only mel, dynamics and expressions.
Here's a wip of the low-poly arms compared to the normal mapped arms:
http://www.jonathanrnelson.com/wip/odopi/armCompare.jpg
Here's a sample of the animation setup in progress:
http://www.jonathanrnelson.com/wip.htm
Still have a long way to go, but the basic rig setup is working. Now need to massage the dynamics to match an environment, not to mention creating the environment ;)
Thoughts, comments, crits, all welcome :)
- Jonathan
www.jonathanrnelson.com (http://www.jonathanrnelson.com/)
http://www.jonathanrnelson.com/wip/odopi/conceptArt.jpg
I wanted to animate it without any hand keyframing, using only mel, dynamics and expressions.
Here's a wip of the low-poly arms compared to the normal mapped arms:
http://www.jonathanrnelson.com/wip/odopi/armCompare.jpg
Here's a sample of the animation setup in progress:
http://www.jonathanrnelson.com/wip.htm
Still have a long way to go, but the basic rig setup is working. Now need to massage the dynamics to match an environment, not to mention creating the environment ;)
Thoughts, comments, crits, all welcome :)
- Jonathan
www.jonathanrnelson.com (http://www.jonathanrnelson.com/)